phylogenesis

Meanings

Plural: phylogeneses

Noun

(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
Evolutionary development of a species.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from German Phylogenese, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. By surface analysis, phylo- + -genesis.

Synonyms

evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny

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